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Is ChatRoulette the Future of the Internet or Its Distant Past?
- jmm 17y agoEh. Not sure it's "the future" in its current form. While clicking next a few times (read: few hundred) is strangely addicting, a session feels like a bad night at the poker table - empty, wasteful, and morally depraved. Without filters or some kind of account system it will remain mostly a diversion for bored and lonely youngins and pervs. I think random video chat has a place in the wider world of normal people (e.g., foreign language learning), but not in this form.
- stingraycharles 17y agoWhy the extremes of 'the past' or 'the future'? Can't it just be 'a part' of the internet?
- shalmanese 17y agoWhat I want to know is why ChatRoulette hasn't converted completely into a gay hookup site yet.
- jcmhn 17y agoBecause gay culture is 10 years ahead of everyone else in using the internet to hook up. This ap is already 7 years obsolete in gay internet years.
- xiaoma 17y agoChatRoulette was also discussed here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1123314 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1123314